The lawsuits come as Eli Lilly grapples with a shortage of Mounjaro in the U.S. due to skyrocketing demand.
of Mounjaro in the U.S. due to skyrocketing demand. Much of the drug's popularity comes from its off-labelEli Lilly initiated several lawsuits in federal courts in Florida, Texas, Arizona, Georgia, Minnesota, South Carolina and Utah. The litigation asked the courts for orders blocking the sales of counterfeit versions of Mounjaro and an unspecified amount of monetary damages.Sign up for NBC San Diego newsletters.
Eli Lilly specifically accuses the spas, clinics and compounding pharmacies of marketing and selling"compounded" drug products that claim to contain tirzepatide, the active ingredient in Mounjaro. Compounded drugs are custom-made versions of a treatment that are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
Eli Lilly is the sole patent holder of tirzepatide and does not sell that ingredient to outside entities. It's unclear what the spas and clinics are actually selling to consumers. "Rather than invest the time and resources necessary to research, develop, and test their products in order to ensure that they are safe and effective and to obtain regulatory approval to market them, Defendant is simply creating, marketing, selling, and distributing unapproved new drugs for unapproved uses throughout Florida and fourteen other states," Eli Lilly wrote in one suit against Rx Compound Store, a compound pharmacy based in Florida.
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